BetweenUs999

Love loads of comedy and cuteness in a ennemy-to-lover short story? This show is for you

I just finished this drama and I'm writing this with a big fat smile on my face.

This drama was nothing spectacular. There was no strong emotion (no one died a tragic death or has been horribly bullied), there was no big scary villain, no weak and machiavelic plots to ruin the lead, no truck involved.... But I enjoyed so much my time while watching this drama.

It's just a romance with a classic trope CEO/Poor girl but it's really well made. It was really fun to watch, a real comedy were you're bound to laugh every episode, some scenes were straight absurd but it was kind of well made to be fun and I like this kind of humour so I totally enjoy the awkwardness and cringyness here.
The fact that her step mother and step sisters loved her like a real child/sister is also a good and enjoyable surprise considering the references to cinderella.

One thing I didn't like at first though is witnessing too much FL's self pity party. She kept saying that she is no one and nothing, no one love her bla bla bla, but as the show progress you can understand that it's part of the story and her journey to self love. So even that was finally not as maddening as it used to be in other dramas.

So that's it, If you want a cute little romance with ton of fun where the leads hate to love each other (or love to hate each other ??? ), watch this drama.

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It's about a mess and nonsenses.

I'm at episode 6 and I need to vent rn.
I really don't like this kind of love triangle.
I almost dropped it when she, then again, changed her mind.
but I'm at ep 6... the last episode so I'll finish it and vent here as I watch and progress in this last one.

Really FL likes to create troubles for nothing... I'm really disliking her more and more rn. She does whatever she wants without a care for the pain she is causing.
And when I think about 1rstML, even if he is the selfish type, my heart breaks.
4 years of rejection, trying to move on but always being reminded what his real feelings are when he rings her love alarm... that's so cruel. Is she keeping it on on purpose?
Don't have as much pain for 2ndML since he knows she does not love him but he chose to stay and be with her, without needing her to ring his love alarm. So yes she was cruel to him too but he chose it.

Let's go for the last episode...

Oh God! she is so melodramatic... But I keep an open mind, people like her exist for real...

She is so selfish. She really does whatever she wants.
And I'm not swallowing her "I regret it every moment but I would do it again because I learned so much about myself"
Girl what did you learn exactly???
What did you learn??? Please give me just one thing. Of course producer didn't gave her this line...
And it's not like there is no other way to learn about oneself but keeping hurting people with bad choices....
At this point she is just childish and ridiculous.

What a headache of a drama.
Nothing makes sense
It was all along about a romance, first season included, but now, half an hour into the last episode, it's suddently about resolving past trauma.

The moral of the story makes no sense for me too.
Yes having suggestions limites people's exploration. But it also limits fails and pain and it saves time. Weighing the pros and cons, theoretical limit of exploration and choices are not a big price to pay.
And it really is just all theoretical.
Because it does not limits people's real life possibilities.
People can look first for suggestions but can also seek hiding gems.
And even if people are focusing only on people suggested by the app, it's their choice to save up time , pain and heartache.
I don't see the issue about it. people liking it, download it, people who want to explore just don't.
Finally if FL didn't download it or delete it when it became a problem (instead of downloading a shield... pff), it would have save us a lot of time.
It's just an app to download or not.
And it's just suggestions for people to follow or not.

And that's the thing in this drama.
The concept, a love alarm, is good but the processing and the storyline are failed.
There are almost no issue there (the real issue for me being the volume of their love alarm notifications...)
Feels like they add the trauma to create issues in the drama.
Same for the shield and the spear....

An other nonsense is that they argue that free will is what's best but loving someone is not bound to be controlled. Forgotten, of course, but real love is not controlled.
So saying that it's her own free will that she loves 2ndML is false since she can't ring his love alarm without a gadget.
That literally means she does not love him.
So please don't say it's because of love.
She choose to stay with him for other reasons. And that's ok in my POV. Some people don't consider love as a priority because they need other things in they life to be at peace. It's ok.
For her it's not love and she did not choose to love him. She choose to stay with him.
It's something else she needs from him and I would totally agree if they said it like that.
People have the right to choose their partners according to their needs, as long as both of them know and agree.

That's really upsetting me.
The moral makes no sense but they absolutly wanted to give us one with a "we can choose who we want to love and not having suggestion broaden the possibilities of free choice and free will... This app is bad."
errr.... No. It can be a bad thing but not because of that.
This app litterally shows you feelings. And you have the right to follow that or not. And that's ok.
There is no bad or good here.

Finally this drama is not a romance
It's an anti romance
Like : with time you can force love...
Even if you love someone who loves you back, you can choose someone else and maybe... with time... and chance... love will probably come. I don't dare wonder what the target would feel if it never happens. A life of "no one likes you in 10m radius". When you sleep beside them... that's so cruel, I can understand why they would choose this path instead of one of the suggestions...
Force yourself.... that's free will.
Yeah yiiiii....
Drop the rate

OMG until the last second they are going to make my blood boil.
I'm going to cry from the stupidity and nonsense.
"Force yourself to eat something you don't like??? because the target likes it???"
I just can't anymore.

AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
I thought they could not say anything worse anymore.
But they did...
She's doing a list of things to do to show her "love" (but really you can actually call it attachement)
And he lovelingly adds : "And the more important thing is...."
I genuinely thought he was going to say something like "be sincere" since it was so important to him at the begining of the episode : for her to be sincere even when she does not love him back...
But no, he said :
"You have to say I love you to the other one"
Dude she does not love you!!! Your love alarm will rings at the first milli second she starts loving you but your phone stays silent. What are you talking about?? She didn't kissed you all throughout season 1 and 2. and when you tried to kiss her she took a step back fom you, falling and almost knocking herself out. With the right background music you would have look like a pervert predator in that scene.
I'm about to cry from their stupidity and childishness, but 5 minutes to go so I'm finishing this. For sure if we were mid drama, I would have dropped it, I can't listen to that anymore.

Annnnnnnnnnd in the last 5 minutes, they take us for idiots...
so now, she has a record of her ringings??? well. Good for her, she loves him finally.
She stopped loving him when she was with 1rstML but she loved him again when she was not anymore... make sense...
I don't need this kind of love, thank you. I don't watch romance for that.

Dropping the rating again. This last episode was the worst kind of final episode. never took out so much point on a drama I (kind of) liked because of the final episode.

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Daily life love, breakup and craziness

Surprisingly, I would like to watch this drama again some day.
It's nothing special tho, nothing spectacular, no vicious scheming or ploting, no accident, no villains or character drived by evil intentions.
The drama is good enough on several dimension to be kind of self sufficient.
Just daily life, love and breakup, how to overcome (or to be overwelmed by) the bad moments, how feelings are difficult to deal with when it's not someone else having them...
Realistic breakups, good love story, lovely partners.
The production's good with no flat or boring moments, the drama is fun (it's totally a comedy even if we could have had as much fun with a little bit less alcohol...) and I'm totally convinced by the actors' performances.
2 OST are not leaving my mind. I woke up 2 days in a row to this beautiful sound on auto repeat in my head and I randomly hum it during the day...
A good enough ending even tho not totally satisfiying. Maybe it was rushed...

Side note : I like the fact that she redefined the meaning of a happy ending as an ending she choose even when she feels sadness from it.
However, I'm not totally ok with the drama perspective saying that love needs to be expressed out loud.
Expressing love while not showing it, is not love.
Sure, it's reassuring and it feels nice to hear those words but I think that without the little daily gestures that shows one's love, Love can't be Love.
The little gestures are the key of a lasting love in my opinion because Love is respect, acceptance, kindness, benevolence, compassion and clemency. Things that can't really be expressed with words.
So I didn't like forcing ML to say it out loud when she obviously saw and knew about all his little gestures for her, about his habits and way of love (from all the secrets they share about their previous relationships and breakups, she would have some cues, wouldn't she?).
While he accepted her as she is, she asked him to change because she needs it.
While saying she keeps falling in the same schema again and again but whatever, she's like that and she accept it, she forced him to say what he never said (or she wouldn't want a relationship with him).
I felt like maybe at some point it was proudness that stopped him before but not with her. With her, it feels more like just long ingrained fears. I would have loved if she accepted his way of love and, while just explaining and showing what she needs from him, let him some time. If he loves her, obviously this kind of man will eventually do it.
I would have been as pleased if not even more if he didn't confess with words as long as he genuinely shows it. Is the drama not being about loving someone by accepting and understanding them even through their flaws?

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Mr Plankton or how to turn an awfully sad fate into a fun story.

At first you get some "uncontrollably fond" vibes but you quickly understand that it is totally different. This drama is like its main character, it does whatever it wants, it's never really serious and it literrally ends with him. You can like or dislike the end but it actually stays true to itself.

You keep smilling even in teary moments,. Sometimes, you feel the sadness and the heartbreak but end up laughting...
You can like or dislike that but we have to recognize that it's a prowess and salute the actors skills.
Plus, the chemistry between the leads was good even when they were exes so it really didn't disappoint on the romance part.

A wee bit disappointed by the OST tho. It's a mini kdrama and what we've got is not bad but it feels like they didn't put in too much effort.

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A badass (amazing) drama, gives weak hero class vibes (but less dark)

7/1/24 : First episode, last minutes till the end of it and I am all exited !!
Like toes curling, hands griping the seat... Love the vibe, love this start
I really had to take a break to write this and share !!

7/1/24 : Halfway through it and It's still so cool to watch

7/2/24 : More than half into it, I didn't change my mind. This drama is so cool. I don't have words, It's seems like I lost all my vocabulary with this one and I can't be more precise but it's the kind of drama I want to share and talk about, I want to watch it with someone, love it with somebody.

7/2/24 : The drama is amazing. Even tho it's not the final I wanted and expected, it's still good and it's still hard to let go of the characters. I'm still crying right now because I get attached to ML and I'm so sad there is a end for me. I'd like to know so much more, stay some more to discover more of his personality and the friendships he built just being a wonderful human being.
For sure I'm going to rewatch this

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